Fox Comics Appreciation Thread! 20 20

[adamstrange]

[lou_fine]

On 7/30/2022 at 2:21 PM, adamstrange said:

Yes, now that's the exact photo shot that I was thinking of in my post up above and would surely be any early Fox collector's dream cache.   

From this distance and angle, they all appear to be HG copies and I imagine some of them would be pedigree copies.  Any idea which copies would be and from what pedigree would they be from?  

[adamstrange]

On 7/31/2022 at 1:30 PM, lou_fine said:

Yes, now that's the exact photo shot that I was thinking of in my post up above and would surely be any early Fox collector's dream cache.   

From this distance and angle, they all appear to be HG copies and I imagine some of them would be pedigree copies.  Any idea which copies would be and from what pedigree would they be from?  

Not my books.  All are high grade, some spectacularly so.

MM 2 = Nova Scotia (probably, memory's a little fuzzy on this one)

MM 3, 4, 5, 6, 8  and WW 7 = Allentown

I don't recall others but not all will be peds.

[lou_fine]

On 7/30/2022 at 2:21 PM, adamstrange said:

 

On 7/31/2022 at 11:10 AM, adamstrange said:

MM 3, 4, 5, 6, 8  and WW 7 = Allentown

 

On 7/20/2022 at 5:23 PM, Straw-Man said:

i would so love to add to my fox allentown cache.   

Well, here's the answer to your wish and also every other early Fox collector's dream, if you can only convince the lucky owner to sell.     

I won't get too greedy and simply just settle for the Allentown copy of Wonderworld 7.    

Edited July 31, 2022 by lou_fine

[lou_fine]

Definitely nowhere close to being in the same ballpark as the Nova Scotia Mystery Men 2 or the other Allentown MM books pictured above, but this result from Heritage's Monday Auction indicates that the early Fox market is still going great guns:    

https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/mystery-men-comics-2-fox-1939-cgc-gd-vg-30-cream-to-off-white-pages/a/122231-11697.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515

Sold for a very strong $5,040 which confirms that the CGC 3.5 graded copy of MM 2 that sold for $6,300 last summer was not just an one-hit wonder.  

[Spyder!]

On 8/2/2022 at 10:39 PM, lou_fine said:

Definitely nowhere close to being in the same ballpark as the Nova Scotia Mystery Men 2 or the other Allentown MM books pictured above, but this result from Heritage's Monday Auction indicates that the early Fox market is still going great guns:    

https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/mystery-men-comics-2-fox-1939-cgc-gd-vg-30-cream-to-off-white-pages/a/122231-11697.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515

Sold for a very strong $5,040 which confirms that the CGC 3.5 graded copy of MM 2 that sold for $6,300 last summer was not just an one-hit wonder.  

Very strong showing indeed! To me this is an absolute classic. 2nd robot cover in comics, Lou Fine, space babe, space ships, belt propulsion systems, ray guns, all in 1939?! It has it all! 

[lou_fine]

On 8/3/2022 at 12:48 AM, Spyder! said:

Very strong showing indeed! To me this is an absolute classic. 2nd robot cover in comics, Lou Fine, space babe, space ships, belt propulsion systems, ray guns, all in 1939?! It has it all! 

Very well said and you definitely hit the nail on the head here with your comments on Mystery Men 2, as I also feel that it is a highly underrated and almost overlooked classic si-fi cover.  

Absolutely love the bright colors on this cover here and I actually personally prefer it over the Mystery Men 3 cover which tends to be the artistic cover of choice for many of the early Fox Mystery Men collectors.  

Edited August 3, 2022 by lou_fine

[skypinkblu]

[skypinkblu]

I love horse covers more than horror

[skypinkblu]

[Spyder!]

On 8/7/2022 at 8:29 PM, skypinkblu said:

Beautiful! If you decide to sell, you know where to find me 

[mwotka]

Love to see the low grade Foxes!  Here are a few more.  

[mwotka]

[mwotka]

[mwotka]

I love the horses too.

[mwotka]

But also the horror.

[Spyder!]

Incredible Mike!

[lou_fine]

On 8/3/2022 at 12:48 AM, Spyder! said:

Very strong showing indeed! To me this is an absolute classic. 2nd robot cover in comics, Lou Fine, space babe, space ships, belt propulsion systems, ray guns, all in 1939?! It has it all! 

Well, I imagine this would now be two very strong showings on two consecutive Mondays for this book here with the CGC 3.0 going for $5,040 last Monday, and now this nicely presenting relative to its CGC 1.8 graded copy fetching $3,360 in last night's Heritage Auction:    

https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/mystery-men-comics-2-fox-1939-cgc-gd-18-off-white-pages/a/122232-13607.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515#

[Spyder!]

On 8/9/2022 at 7:46 PM, lou_fine said:

Well, I imagine this would now be two very strong showings on two consecutive Mondays for this book here with the CGC 3.0 going for $5,040 last Monday, and now this nicely presenting relative to its CGC 1.8 graded copy fetching $3,360 in last night's Heritage Auction:    

https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/mystery-men-comics-2-fox-1939-cgc-gd-18-off-white-pages/a/122232-13607.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515#

Another strong showing indeed! I love seeing this book getting some respect. I’m happy with my rag.

[Spyder!]

I also picked up this Lou Fine beauty recently.